Archive for the ‘Rescue’ Category

Planet Gorgeous: Rescue and Fostering- one and the same?

Rescue is the place where the guineas first land from wherever and are assessed by the head honcho, who then decides what each guinea needs.  If the rescue has a foster-carer, they need to decide what criteria they use to decide which guineas they keep and which go to be fostered.  Also, what “rules and regulations” [...]

May 3, 2010   Posted in: Planet Gorgeous, Planet Guinea, Rescue  No Comments

Guinea Pig Welfare Pigfesto 2010

Read through the Guinea Pig Welfare Pigfesto to find out what the essentials are for providing a guinea pig friendly home; by putting these into practise guinea pigs are “allowed to be guinea pigs”, which in turn impacts on health and wellbeing:

A correctly balanced diet including fresh water. Diet should be made up of 70% [...]

April 3, 2010   Posted in: Behaviour, Rescue  No Comments

Thistle Cavies’ February Newsletter

Thank you to Thistle Cavies for letting us share their February news letter. It goes to show that, like RGPR, Thistle would rather guinea pigs are surrendered sooner than later. Where guinea pigs are purchased from a reputable rescue/source one would hope that the commitment needed is made very clear to potential adopters.

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February 24, 2010   Posted in: Rescue  No Comments

What’s In A Rescue? (Thistle Cavies Newsletter)

Thistle Cavies shared their experiences of so called “rescues” in their January 2010 newsletter. All too often breeders are referred to as ‘uncaring’ and “bad sources” to get guinea pigs from, and there are cases where this is true, what is rarely commented upon is that exactly the same can be said of some “rescues”, [...]

January 17, 2010   Posted in: Rescue  No Comments

Reputable Sources

It is important to support a reputable source when buying your guinea pig. Whilst taking in ill guinea pigs out of sympathy might seem the honourable thing to do how will it affect the ones that are left? Looking at the bigger picture and reporting the source (or simply ignoring it and therefore not supporting [...]

December 22, 2009   Posted in: Rescue  No Comments

Choosing Your Guinea Pigs…

Choose your guineas’ friends for their character and your clothes for their colour. Choosing clothes for their personality makes no sense and choosing guineas’ friends for their colour is unthinkable.

Guinea pigs are naturally sociable animals that live in groups in the wild. There are conflicting views on whether or not more than one boar [...]

November 20, 2009   Posted in: Rescue  No Comments